Played D3:RoS since release till now, heres the results!

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Reinhart wrote:

If you love pimping up your Diablo 3 characters with legendary stuff, then that is perfectly fine.

Spoiler

But go and share your passion on the official Diablo 3-forums.

Man, WoW is still running those low-polygon models?

D3 doesn't desync and PoE does. That's all that matters.

bought d3+ros for less than 50€ (around 44€ I think)
I've been enjoying the game more than poe lately,but mostly because i enjoy leveling alts,and love doing bounties/rifts. D3 is a fun game,and if you are casual it might last for a while,but in the long run PoE is still lightyears ahead.
just my 2 cents

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plcb wrote:

Don't you people know that POE is hardcore? Nothing is more hardcore than the endless grind for no good drops, gearing up in A1N and generally not being able to access endgame content. People who choose to play mostly solo should also be severely punished in a HC game.

The line between witty sarcasm and dumb nonsense is sometimes hard to see, so it is easy to cross it.

Hardcore is, in general, about dedication. So yes, it is the opposite of "casual", and PoE is designed for hardcore players who are able and willing to dedicate large quantities of time to the game. PoE being an entirely item-driven game, and the power of a character is solely decided by equipment and level. In order for it to be hardcore and require dedication, both of those must require time. (Any other hardcore activity does, too, though usually the time is spent on practicing, but it requires time nonetheless.)

Trading, and this is why your attempt at sarcasm fails, is the easy mode. It side-steps the major element of what makes the game hardcore. In addition, the more you trade, the less satisfied you will be with the drops you get. There is a lot of crap that drops, but even decent yellow are discounted as junk because the stuff obtainable by trading is better.

People who trade set themselves up for this. It's the result of impatience, of inability to make do with what drops, and unwillingness to actually play the game in a hardcore fashion. People also lack creativity. Instead of making their own builds, designed around the drops they can realistically get, they follow some trader's build and then think that unless they get BiS gear, they can't possibly play or beat the game.

Drop rates and crafting need some changes, but D3's 180 degrees turn in approaching this issue isn't suitable for long-term motivation, either. PoE requires too much dedication, and D3 too little.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

You didnt mentioned, that in D3 legendaries drop now mostly on "time" basis (rather than on "number of enemies killed"). That's it, 10x faster clearing speed wont bring you 10x legendaries dropped, i doubt it will double your legendaries drop even. Sure, you will gain far more experience, but much like PoE, experience doesnt worth much in D3.
Such a system encourages noobs only. Also, when you quit game for a while, you will receive hidden "rested bonus" to drops for a short time.

If you have to make stuff up to bash a game then maybe the game isn't as bad as you think? :p

10x clearing speed will give close to 10x leg drops (you get a pity leg every 2 hour however).
Do you have ANY evidence for "rested bonus"? lol.

Check D3 US forum for evidence, there is more than enough of it.

10x faster clearing speed doesnt give 10x more legendaries drop (although it gives 10x more exp). The actual increase is approximately 2-3x times more, which is pretty pathetic considering efforts.

Also, as it was said, most legendaries are utter crap, and powerful build-enabling legendaries are as rare as Shavronne's wrappings.
Imo, D3 is now extremely close to another ARPG - Sacred 2. However, i find Sacred 2 better.

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Mivo wrote:

Trading, and this is why your attempt at sarcasm fails, is the easy mode. It side-steps the major element of what makes the game hardcore.

Considering that according to the devs the game is designed around trade your reply is just "dumb nonsense".

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

Check D3 US forum for evidence, there is more than enough of it.

10x faster clearing speed doesnt give 10x more legendaries drop (although it gives 10x more exp). The actual increase is approximately 2-3x times more, which is pretty pathetic considering efforts.

10x clear speed gives 1000x more legendary drops. See, I can play that game too.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

Also, as it was said, most legendaries are utter crap, and powerful build-enabling legendaries are as rare as Shavronne's wrappings.

No, they are not even close to as rare as Shavronnes wrappings.


I really don't see the point in making things up just to bash a game. If you need to make things up about a game just to have something negative to say then maybe the game would actually be fun if you tried it with an open mind?

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plcb wrote:

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Mivo wrote:

Trading, and this is why your attempt at sarcasm fails, is the easy mode. It side-steps the major element of what makes the game hardcore.

Considering that according to the devs the game is designed around trade your reply is just "dumb nonsense".

Which is further proof they fail miserably at coming to terms with what an aRPG is. They seem confused between what genre there game is lol.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

You didnt mentioned, that in D3 legendaries drop now mostly on "time" basis (rather than on "number of enemies killed"). That's it, 10x faster clearing speed wont bring you 10x legendaries dropped, i doubt it will double your legendaries drop even. Sure, you will gain far more experience, but much like PoE, experience doesnt worth much in D3.
Such a system encourages noobs only. Also, when you quit game for a while, you will receive hidden "rested bonus" to drops for a short time.

A good summary of why bad players (aka noobs) might feel poe is being unfair to them. PoE is very good at culling the weak characters and is very rewarding for the top 1% (in exp/skillpoints and currency management). WIth the 4-months league where usually no prior progress can be made (race rewards are another discussion) everyone has the same opportunity to make use of their knowledge and rise to the top with a fancy character that really feels like your own in terms of all your gem and slot setups, an exciting skill tree that feels like a history of what you've accomplished by killing mobs and your gear that picked out one after another. D3 is fundamentally lacking this feeling of your own character and will probably never be (or doesnt want to be) as in depth and rewarding as GGG's game.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

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Sickness wrote:

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

You didnt mentioned, that in D3 legendaries drop now mostly on "time" basis (rather than on "number of enemies killed"). That's it, 10x faster clearing speed wont bring you 10x legendaries dropped, i doubt it will double your legendaries drop even. Sure, you will gain far more experience, but much like PoE, experience doesnt worth much in D3.
Such a system encourages noobs only. Also, when you quit game for a while, you will receive hidden "rested bonus" to drops for a short time.

If you have to make stuff up to bash a game then maybe the game isn't as bad as you think? :p

10x clearing speed will give close to 10x leg drops (you get a pity leg every 2 hour however).
Do you have ANY evidence for "rested bonus"? lol.

Check D3 US forum for evidence, there is more than enough of it.

10x faster clearing speed doesnt give 10x more legendaries drop (although it gives 10x more exp). The actual increase is approximately 2-3x times more, which is pretty pathetic considering efforts.

Also, as it was said, most legendaries are utter crap, and powerful build-enabling legendaries are as rare as Shavronne's wrappings.
Imo, D3 is now extremely close to another ARPG - Sacred 2. However, i find Sacred 2 better.

Confirmed by my own god damn fucking experience that you ARE WRONG. I played 12-14 hours straight, got two legendary drops.. That certainly throws your 'timed drop' theory out the window.